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Three years ago Fiona Bloom established The Bloom Effect after fifteen years of diverse experience in the music industry. A British invader in her own right Bloom prides herself on being able to recognize, groom and launch emerging talents who might otherwise go unnoticed by other industry insiders. She started her career at the tender age of four as a classical concert pianist but as a young woman when she embarked upon a Kibbutz and brief career as a night club assistant in Israel, her...
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Segment 1: Like many animal lovers, JESSE OLDHAM managed her first feral cat colony in her Brooklyn nighborhood independent of any formal training. Her passion for her hobby led her to become an ASPCA certified Trap Neuter Return (TNR) expert and to found the organization Slope Street Cats where she and other cat loving neighbors could organize their efforts. Jesse is currently the Senior Administrative Director of the ASPCA's...
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JACK WALSH was born and bred in Brooklyn, New York and has made it his life's work to be a steward of the borough's musical and cultural landscape. For three decades now, Walsh has played a substantial role in producing the Celebrate Brooklyn! performing arts festival which is staged annually at the Prospect Park band shell. The festival brings top notch production standards and world class talent to Brooklynites and New York City visitors free of charge. The 2010 season will kick off in June...
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Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir believe that Consumerism is overwhelming our lives. The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products. That our neighborhoods, "commons" places like stoops and parks and streets and libraries, are disappearing into the corporatized world of big boxes and chain stores. But if we "back away from the product" - even a little bit, well then we Put The Odd Back In God! On today's program Reverend Billy...
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SARGEANT RICARDO ROSADO United States Marine Corps Marine Toys for Tots Foundation This week Angela McKenzie speaks with Sgt. Ricardo Rosado, an active duty Marine for seven years, as he explains his role in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and its' Marine Toys for Tots initiatives during the holiday season. Toys for Tots was founded by Colonel William Hendricks and his wife Diane, when they realized there was no charitable organization in existence that gave toys to needy children. Ever...
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Sana Butler is a special correspondent for Newsweek International and has previously worked at the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Raised in Connecticut, she attended Georgetown University and earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. In her first book Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves, Butler shares her eye-opening and uplifting conversations with the sons and daughters of parents who had survived the...
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TINA TURNER Queen of Rock 'n Roll Tina Turner born Anna Mae Bullock, is the focus of today’s show in celebration of Women’s History Month. With unforgettable hits like “A Fool in Love,” “Proud Mary,” and “Nut Bush City Limits,” Tina Turner started her half a century long music career as an R&B vocalist for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue after convincing an initially skeptical Ike to let her sing with his band in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of eighteen. This biography set...
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JAMES MACKLIN & JAMES WINANS THE BOWERY MISSION & KIDS WITH A PROMISE PROGRAM The Bowery Mission has been serving homeless and hungry New Yorkers since 1879 and in 1894 started the Kids With A Promise program to help at-risk youth escape the pitfalls that spending idle Summer days in the Lower Eastside Tenements created. On today's program, James Macklin, Director of Outreach, talks about the changing face of the homeless in New York City; about the programs currently available to help...
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VANESSA SATTEN rates her looks outside of the traditional beauty standard set by the Hip-Hop music establishment and believes that by virtue of this, it's easier for her to navigate an arena that's dominated by swaggering young men in their prime, who court the industry's celebrated eye candy girls. Maybe she's on to something because Satten has become one of Hip-Hop's most influential women by circumventing the party girl scene and earnestly working her way through the ranks of XXL magazine,...
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A RocknRoots Special for Women's History Month Host Tom Boyd and co-host and special guest Bev Grant salute Women's History Month with Folk, Blues, Contemporary R&B, Rock, and more. Itâs a fast-moving hour of music and talk - featuring West Coast legend Barbara Dane, the powerful sound of Sweet Honey in the Rock; a salute to Rosa Parks by the Neville Brothers, the remarkable Ani DiFranco, and much more. Bev Grants own anthemic "We Were There" closes the show. Tom Boyd led...
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Cathleen Angelo, Impresaria & Philanthropist (eleven2eleven, inc.) Today's show is the first of a two-part salute to New York City venues and promoters who ensure that live music remains a vibrant part of NYC's cultural landscape. In the spirit of "ladies first" Angela McKenzie features Cathleen Angelo, an energetic, young, promoter who enlivens a number of Brooklyn based night spots with the sounds of cutting edge musicians. Cathleen also lifts the spirits of children each year...
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PATRICIA DANDONOLI CEO & President Water Aid America - Part 1 of 2 During this special month commemorating women’s history and the strides that women have made throughout the years, Angela McKenzie sits down with Patricia Dandonoli, CEO and President of Water Aid, a non-profit organization committed to bringing clean water and sanitation techniques to the poorest, most marginalized countries of the world. Here in America, pretty much everyone can attest to the fact that they can take long...
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Chef Michael M. is the Founder and Executive Chef of Comfort Zone Cooking. He was born up north in the Motor City - Detroit, Michigan but his hunger for creating great tasting meals was birthed down south. In addition to his natural talent for cooking, he fine tuned his abilities during the countless summers he spent in Mississippi with his great aunt Savannah in her kitchen. In adulthood, Michael has taken his family's traditional recipes and added his own color to them, creating new blends of...
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Today's show features an all star line-up of future stars. Cathleen Angelo and Tammy Warner are the co-founders of the youth-led, not-for-profit initiative Fighting For Futures (FFF) an organization that uses creative means to open the minds of under privileged youth. The seeds of the organization were planted when Angelo took a break from her life as a New York City event promoter to go globe trotting. She made her way to Cambodia and was deeply moved by the plight of young children living in...
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From Slam to Hip-Hop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in American culture. The series he produced for PBS, the United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. In the 1990's he co-founded the record label Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, to bring...
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Jen Marden is a New York City socialite who is using her substantial Rolodex to bring heavy foot traffic to charitable events, hosted by her company Jen Marden Charity Event Consulting. On today's edition of Initiative Radio, Angela speaks with Jen about her brief and horrific stint as a reality television starlet and about how growing up in a very privileged and sometimes pretentious environment inspired her to devote her professional life to raising awareness and funds for non-profit...
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IRINA FIRSTEIN Licensed Individual and Couples Therapist Irina Firstein is a New York City based, licensed therapist who specializes in couples and individual therapy. She immigrated from Russia with her family as a teenager before the Iron Curtain fell and credits the struggles of their immigrant experience with awakening her desire to help others. Firstein describes herself as a romantic-at-heart who likes to shatter common relationship myths because every couple is unique. Today's edition of...
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YOLANDA BORRAS Founder Musical Kids International Musical Kids International is a program devoted to arts-based bilingual education for preschool aged children and was founded in 1999 by Yolanda Borras, a passionate devotee to musical education. Her program stresses learning through vocabulary, movement, art projects and books and songs directly extracted from the folklore traditions of different countries including Israel, Korea, China, Spain and France. Borras believes that incorporating...
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Dashaun Jiwe Morris Author In his book War of the Bloods In My Veins: A Street Soldier's March to Redemption, author and motivational speaker Dashaun Jiwe Morris examines a life wrought with sadness unknown to many Americans. Jiwe's transition from a child full of promise to the boy who commits his first drive-by at age 11 is a tragic tale of modern childhood. It is this pivotal moment when the reader knows that his relationship with the Bloods is no fleeting romance but a long-term commitment....
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Gandhi Part 3 A salute to the life and times of the Mahatma Gandhi.
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Encore Broadcast From Slam to Hip-Hop, from performance poetry to spoken word, Bob Holman has been a central figure in the reemergence of poetry in American culture. The series he produced for PBS, the United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. In the 1990's he co-founded the record label Mouth Almighty/Mercury...
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SARAH McKECHNIE, President Lucis Trust Sarah McKechnie is the International President of the Lucis Trust which was founded by Alice and Foster Bailey in 1922 and orginally named the Lucifer Publishing Company, to release Alice's writings which examined the principles and secrets of the Ageless Wisdom. Out of the Trust came The Arcane School, a free correspondence program that helps to develop the spiritual consciousness of an international student body, while guiding them in the growing...
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Christopher Austopchuk Senior Vice President, Design Creative Group Sony Music If ever there was an organization of distinguished graphic artists in unity, Chris Austopchuk could certainly be the secretary general because he has over three decades of experience in the graphic design field as both an artist and an educator. Twenty-eight of those years have been spent in the corporate world at Sony Music and for all of his professional life heâs been a professor at The School of Visual Arts,...
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CATHLEEN ANGELO is the Founder and key Missionary of the organization Fighting For Futures. She recently returned home from Cambodia in Southeast Asia where she was involved in a number of community initiatives such as providing children who had never before seen or held a camera, with photography classes; building toilets and showers for the community and making music with young musicians. Cathleen gives Angela an update of all her activities and also talks about the organization's forthcoming...
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Music of New York Part 2 Rock 'n Roots Edition As Initiative Radio closes out its' third season, guest hosts Tom Boyd and Ann Sternberg present a two part salute to Initiative Radio's and Rock 'n Roots' hometown of New York City. In classic Rock 'n Roots style, listeners will be treated to a few decades worth of music made famous by artists who came to the Big Apple to secure their place in musical history.
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In the second season of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie aired a combination Black History Makers/Valentines Day special broadcast and long after its' airing, listeners still respond positively to that show. So with the help of Initiative Radio's resident poet RICHARD COOPER WILLIAMS, Emily Pike and Carl Murrell, this week Angela responds to listeners in kind, by programming a refreshing blend of love themed selections from Richard's book "From A Whisper to a Scream," with soulful...
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Rinchen Dharlo President, The Tibet Fund Since 1959 over 140,000 Tibetans have fled their homeland and endured great hardship to start a new life in exile. The Tibet Fund was founded under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to help improve the lives of these refugees and enable them to maintain their Tibetan way of life and culture. From modest beginnings in 1981, the Tibet Fund has grown to become a primary vehicle for humanitarian assistance for the refugees. On today's edition of...
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Marthalicia Matarrita Live Painter & Battle Artist Although it may seem cliché to say that art can be a healing element for people, Angela's guest Marthalicia Mataritta, a New York City born painter is a living testament to this sentiment. As a youth, she and her two brothers grew up in an unstable fashion with their ailing mother and the family moved between New York City and Pennsylvania, then between the Dominican Republic and back to New York City, where they lived in cramped...
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Alexis McGill Johnson Executive Director The American Values Institute Angela McKenzie speaks at length with Alexis McGill Johnson, Executive Director of the American Values Institute (AVI) to continue celebrating the achievements of Black History Makers. Alexis is a Princeton and Yale graduate and even though her impressive professional history encompasses the worlds of academia, politics and entertainment she has not forgotten her black roots and cultural heritage. Alexis has held top posts...
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DR. JILL ELLIOT Licensed Veterinarian & Animal Lover N.Y. Holistic Vet Dr. Jill Elliot has been practicing traditional and homeopathic veterinary medicine since 1995 and in this edition of Initiative Radio she explains how Holistic medicine addresses both an animal's personality and ailment in order to prescribe appropriate treatment, unlike conventional medicine which tends to suppress symptoms. Dr. Elliot is the mother of two senior cats and she explains that becoming an animal doctor was...
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CARMEN ENGLAND CitiWide Harm Reduction On this edition of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie sits down with Carmen England, a former heroin addict who has been clean for over eight years due to her participation in CitiWide Harm Reduction programs. With the non-judgmental support of Social Workers and Case Managers, Carmen became sober in 2002 and she is now strong enough to be a CitiWide Peer who assists Participants with their healing through outreach, syringe exchange, advocacy and other harm...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS SPIES Who's watching? What are they looking for? What do we do to protect ourselves? Timeless questions, set to music on this edition of RocknRoots. Songs about secrets and spies from David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Maurice John Vaughn, Joshua Redmond, Dorothy Love Coates, and many more. And a powerful reading of Richard Thompson's classic "Shoot Out the Lights" by X, the influential Los Angeles punkmasters. (just for fun, a Tom Waits song that's impossible to decipher)....
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HUDIE LEDBETTER aka LED BELLY Hudie Ledbetter was one of the giants of early American music. He was also a pawn in the game of "discovering our roots," brought to New York by the Alan and John Lomax and dressed in prison garb to capture the public's attention. Truth be told, Lead Belly earned the prison stripes - he did hard time at Angola. This RocknRoots edition of Initiative Radio tells the Lead Belly story through his own music, and through influences (Bessie Smith, Alberta...
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TOM BOYD & ANN STERNBERG Rock 'n Roots SPIRIT It's not about denominations. It's not about dogma. It's about SPIRIT on this classic edition of RocknRoots. The power of Wilson Pickett. . .the wonderful burnished sound of the Zion Harmonizers. . .John Coltrane. . .Five Blind Boys. . .and many, many others. The music rings true and clean and organic - one way to go forward in search of the things that unite us, not divide us. And stay to the end for Aaron Neville and Johnny Adams!
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MR. RICHARD FLETCHER, PGM Executive Secretary of The Masonic Service Association NA Anti-Masonic hype is alive on the internet and continues to target successful pop music stars like Jay-Z, Rihanna and Lady Gaga, by accusing them of serving a Masonic/Satanic master through their song lyrics and the images in their music videos. To get to the bottom of what the Freemasons are about, Angela McKenzie sits down with venerable Freemason Richard Fletcher, to learn about the origins and evolution of...
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The Sex Workers Project (Part 2. Women's History Month Spotlight) Today's program takes Angela McKenzie to the offices of The Sex Workers Project (SWP) an organization that uses human rights and harm reduction approaches, to protect and promote the rights of individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion. Angela's first guest Sienna Baskin is a staff attorney at SWP who provides non-judgmental legal education, advice and representation...
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PROHIBITION AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION How the "Noble Experiment" Changed America This week’s edition of Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie focuses on the United States Constitution and the Prohibition era in which the sale, manufacture and transport of alcohol was banned. Implemented by the 18th Amendment in 1920 and later repealed with the ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933, Prohibition went into effect via the Volstead Act and was promoted by “dry”...
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2010 SALUTE TO THE MAHATMA GANDHI ON INITIAIVE RADIO One sure sign that a new season of Initiative Radio is underway, is the annual tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi. In this edition of the show, Gandhi's life is documented from his days as a child groom and mediocre student, to early adulthood when soft-spoken Gandhi set sail for Great Britain, where he studied law and joined a group of noteworthy intellectuals. After Britain he returned home but found...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS FRIENDS Tom Boyd & Ann Sternberg OK, here's a question: what thread binds these musicians: The Ravens...Bette Midler...Willie "The Lion" Smith...Dr. John...Bobby "Blue" Bland. It's songs about "Friendship" and this edition of Rock 'n Roots finds friendly music from Robert Johnson all the way up to Joan Armatrading. Look at friendship from a lot of new and interesting perspectives on this classic edition of Rock 'n Roots.
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SEASON 3 MIXTAPE Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie Angela McKenzie looks back fondly on some of her interviews from Initiative Radio's third season. Tune in to hear excerpts from her conversation with Mr. Rinchen Dharlo, President of the Tibet fund whose mission under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is to work for the preservation of the distinct culture and national identity of the Tibetan people. Then atheist and activist Sunsara Taylor, Reverend Billy leader of the Church of...
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Joining Angela McKenzie in this hour are LAURA MACHO and WILLIAM HARLEY who are both funeral directors at Frank E. Campbell the Funeral Chapel for an in depth discussion about end of life care. Laura also serves as the home's public relations officer and today she speaks about the 24 hour Compassion Help Line that is available to families up to a year after their loved one has passed and also discusses some of Frank E. Campbell's corporate citizenship activities. William who is also a teacher...
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Angela's guest Sunsara Taylor has been given the honor of being called a lunatic by Bill O'Reilly on the right wing political program "The O'Reilly Factor" during a heated debate about Sunsara and her colleagues' opposition to the Iraq war and the subsequent torture inflicted upon detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Sunsara Taylor is not only an anti-war activist but she is also a writer, speaker and uncompromising atheist. Just in time to challenge the religious dogma and traditions...
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GARY FARMER Cayuga Nation Native American Actor, Filmmaker, Cultural Activist & Blues Musician Born into the Cayuga Nation, Gary Farmer is a Native American Cultural Activist, Filmmaker, Actor and Blues Musician fronting the band "Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers." Farmer has devoted much of his career to promoting systems of communication between First Nations people and giving them exposure to a broader audience. He founded the Aboriginal Voices Radio Network and the Aboriginal...
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TAJ WEEKES is a singer-songwriter who performs his craft in the Reggae music genre. He is the founder of the not-for-profit organization They Often Cry Outreach (TOCO) which is dedicated to improving the lives of under-privileged, at-risk and orphaned children in the Caribbean through sport, enrichment, educational and wellness programs. Just ahead of his latest tour Taj talks to Angela McKenzie about how his musical journey is helping to change the perception that great Reggae music can only...
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Rock 'n Roots Salute to Black History Makers Blues and Jazz / Delmark Records One of the essential themes of black history is the central role music, particularly jazz and blues, has played in the life and times of black communities across the country. Delmark Records is a Chicago-based label at the heart of the music. From pioneers like Speckled Red and Sleepy John Estes, to blues legends T-Bone Walker, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, and out-there trailblazer Sun Ra, Delmark has recorded,...
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ROBERTO "PLENA" IRIZARRY NUYORICAN POET Leaving Ponce, Puerto Rico at the age of four, Roberto "Plena" Irizarry moved to the Bronx to encounter a new life. He is a follower and proud member of the Nuyorican movement, which emerged on the street by Puerto Ricans who needed a new form of self-government and new communication techniques that the police couldn't decipher, to share experiences of the pain, horror, and struggle of destitution surrounding them. It has since evolved...
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ROCK 'N ROOTS WORK! Everybody talks about jobs. Some even sing about 'em! On this edition of "RocknRoots," hosts Tom Boyd and the late Ann Sternberg present a bunch of great musical expressions of jobs and working. There's jobs music from James Cotton, Nina Simone, Lightnin' Hopkins, the Grateful Dead, Five Chinese Brothers and a lot more. This RnR show first aired in 1999, but the music and the focus on jobs are as fresh as today.
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JEFF EISENBERG Junior Jam On this edition of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie sits down with ASCAP award winning, singer-songwriter Jeff Eisenberg of "Junior Jam," a trio that sings high energy, interactive and educational songs for children. Eisenberg began his career as a Speech Therapist for the public school system and after working with kids and language development; he incorporated music with the lessons when he realized the routine of teaching language had become arduous for...
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J.R. LAFONTAINE does not discount the possibility that her homosexuality might be hereditary - after all she bears a strong resemblance to her homosexual mother in features, mannerisms and lifestyle. In this hour, part-time New York City radio personality JR LaFontaine sits down with Angela McKenzie to share her life journey as part of the homosexual population. From self awareness to coming out to family and friends, to the joys and sorrows she experiences on a day-to-day basis being gay in a...
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"Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie" is proud to present select vintage editions of the radio program "Rock 'n Roots" hosted by Tom Boyd and the late Ann Sternberg. Each program is thematic in nature and takes listeners on a musical ride filled with history, trivia and cheerful banter. Today's program explores the roots of racism in America through discussion and a great play list of music. Weighing in on the issue is the righteous babe herself Ani DiFranco; Frederick...
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